Enlightenment 18th c Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| What was Prussia famous for duing the time of the Enlightenment? | Their army. |
| According to Locke, what is the social contract? | The agreement between a fair government and responsible individuals. |
| Key Term- Rationalism | The conviction that the laws of nature are fathomable by human reason and that humanity is perfectable. |
| According to Locke, when is okay for the people to revolt? | When the government oversteps its boundaries of protecting the life, liberty and property of the citizens. |
| According to Adam Smith, what would foster economic growth? | Free competition, limited government regulation and individual self-interest expressed through a supply and demand market system. |
| What territories did Catherine the Great take over? | She annexed Polish and Ottoman land. |
| What vaccine was developed in the late 18th century? | The smallpox vaccine. |
| What achievements were attributed to Peter the Great? (He was a Romanov btw) | Gained territory in the Baltic Sa, the Black Sea, and the Far East. Westernized Russia. Build the capital of St.Petersburg. Reformed the governemnt bureaucracy and the Russian Orthodox Church. Modern army. Encouraged commerce and industry. |
| Key Term- Deism | Saw God as a cosmic clockmaker who created the perfect universe and therefore does not have to intervene in it. |
| What did Maria Theresa do for Austria? | Centralized the government. Promoted commerce. Limited power of nobles. |
| Who wrote the Two Treatsies on Civil Government? | John Locke |
| Who were the philosophes? | A group of literary figures that argued that once the natural laws that governed nature and human existence were discovered, society coild be organized in accordance with them. |
| What movement did Rousseau found? | Romantic movement. |
| What did Montesquieu write and what did he argue? | He wrote the Spirit of the Laws. It argued that the powers of the government must be separated to avoid despotism. The system would work due to its checks and balances. Much like our systems today. |
| Which two important "learned societies" were established during the scientific revolution? | The French Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London. |
| Which religion supported the new heliocentric view and why? Which religion did not? | The Protestants supported the new view because the new theory symbolized Europe's intellectual freedom. The Catholic church did not because it seemed to contradict the primacy of humanity in God's creation. |
| What advances were made in mathematics and medicine during the scientific revolution? | Math- development of probablity and calculus. Medicine- advances in surgery, anatomy, drug therapy, and the discovery of microorganisms. |
| Which English thinker advocated the inductive (or experimental) method? | Francis Bacon |
| What is Joseph II noted for? | Guaranteeding freedom of press and religion, reforming judicial system for greater class equality, German is made official language. Abolish serfdom!! He's in Austria. |
| To Rousseau what is the goal of the individual? The group? | Individual- To attain full expression of natural instincts. Group- To attain national self-determination. |
| What did Voltaire preach? | Deism. Human reason is good. |
| What did Galileo become famous for? | His telesocopic observations that helped prove the Copernican theory. And, sun spots! |
| What was the result of the Seven Years' War? | France lost its North American colonies and the British North American colonies grew more independant. |
| What ideas is Rousseau famous for? | General will should control a nation. Noble savage-civilization corrupted humankind. Life in state of nature was pure. |
| Key Term- Cartesian Dualism | The division of all existance into the spiritual and the material. |
| What did Frederick the Great do? | Made Prussia a great power. Patronized Voltaire. Improved Education. Codified laws. Fostered industry. Invited immigration. Extended religious toleration. Was a total Enlightened Despot. |
| Which three concepts made up the Two Treatsies? | The consent of the governed. The social contract. The right of revolution. |
| What factors helped eliminate the plauge? | Better sanitation. Introduction of quarantine methods. Elimination of the black rat. |
| What ideas did Rousseau advocate in his Emile? | He argued that children need to be understood as individuals and that they need caring from their teachers and parents. |
| Who were the aristocratic landowners in Russia? | The Boyars. |
| What is an ideal Enlightened Despot? | A ruler that aimed for the advancement of socviety by fostering education, aiding the economy, and promoting social justice. |
| Who was Francois Quesnay and what ideas did he support? | He was the leader of the physiocrats. Their motto was the laissez-faire. Believed that governments should remove restraints to free trade. |
| Which astronomer proved the elliptical orbit path? | Johann Kepler. |
| Why does Cathernine the Great give up on her enlightened reforms? | Revolts from the Cossacks (Pugachev Rebellion) gained ground with the peasants. |
| Key Term- Mercantilism | A system developed by various European states to guarantee a favorable balance of trade with other European nations or with their American colonies. |
| Who was famous for the phrase "Ecrasez l'infame"? | Voltaire. (It means "Crush the infamous.") |
| What was the Seven Years' War? | A war fought between France and England and its allies over the competition for colonies. |
| What is serfdom? | A condition of being bound to the land that had ended in virtually all of Western Europe. |
| Discuss Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations. | He refined and expaned the laissez-faire philosophy. His book defined capitalism. Economy governed by natural lawa- supply and demand,competition. |
| What was Rene Descartes known for? | Writing Discourse on Method. Cartesian dualism. "Cogito ergo sum"--I think therefore I am. |
| Which scientist disvoered the natural laws of motion? (Gravity?) | Issac Newton |
| What family ruled Prussia for the 18th century? | The Hohenzollern's! |
| Key Term- open-field system. | Form of agriculture where arable land is divided in a cimmunity in strips which were designated to an individual family. |
| Key Term- Enclosure movement | The fencing off of open fields to enable large landowners to employ crop rotation. |
| What did Diderot write? | The Encyclopedia-a collection of political and social critiques. |
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